Python Jobs in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Python over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 24 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -17 +8
Permanent jobs citing Python 294 487 871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.10% 7.22% 14.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.89% 24.65% 35.18%
Number of salaries quoted 157 349 313
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £27,875
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £89,750
South East median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £61,700
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.86% +7.30%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 797 1,976 2,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.39% 29.28% 40.23%
Number of salaries quoted 541 1,614 1,429
10th Percentile £37,250 £37,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +3 115 £55,565 -4.20% 111
Oxfordshire +4 107 £55,000 - 97
Buckinghamshire +24 72 £60,000 +14.29% 64
Python
South East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (2.72%) Confluence
2 6 (2.04%) Apache
3 4 (1.36%) IIS
4 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.68%) CMS
5 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (1.02%) Chatbot
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.68%) Simulink
4 2 (0.68%) Zemax
5 1 (0.34%) Pipeline Pilot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.36%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 89 (30.27%) AWS
2 72 (24.49%) Azure
3 34 (11.56%) Serverless
4 29 (9.86%) Amazon EC2
5 28 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
6 24 (8.16%) GCP
7 23 (7.82%) Power Platform
8 22 (7.48%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (7.14%) Snowflake
10 15 (5.10%) Amazon S3
11 13 (4.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (2.38%) GitHub
13 7 (2.38%) PaaS
14 6 (2.04%) Amazon ECR
14 6 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (12.93%) TCP/IP
1 38 (12.93%) VPN
2 9 (3.06%) 5G
2 9 (3.06%) Bluetooth
2 9 (3.06%) Firewall
2 9 (3.06%) LTE
2 9 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (2.38%) DNS
4 6 (2.04%) Internet
4 6 (2.04%) SSL
5 4 (1.36%) WAN
6 3 (1.02%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.68%) DWDM
7 2 (0.68%) GPON
7 2 (0.68%) IPv4
7 2 (0.68%) IPv6
7 2 (0.68%) LAN
7 2 (0.68%) MPLS
7 2 (0.68%) MQTT
8 1 (0.34%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (11.90%) Relational Database
3 24 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (7.14%) Power BI
5 20 (6.80%) Data Lake
5 20 (6.80%) Metadata
5 20 (6.80%) RDBMS
6 16 (5.44%) MySQL
7 13 (4.42%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.06%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.72%) MongoDB
9 8 (2.72%) Tableau
10 6 (2.04%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.36%) Metabase
12 3 (1.02%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.02%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.02%) Weaviate
13 2 (0.68%) Big Data
13 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (12.59%) Git
2 36 (12.24%) Cucumber
3 34 (11.56%) Robot Framework
4 29 (9.86%) Jenkins
5 18 (6.12%) JMeter
5 18 (6.12%) JUnit
5 18 (6.12%) Mockito
6 12 (4.08%) JIRA
7 10 (3.40%) GitLab
8 4 (1.36%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.02%) MLflow
10 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.68%) LabVIEW
10 2 (0.68%) Mocha
10 2 (0.68%) Moq
10 2 (0.68%) Selenium
10 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.68%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.34%) CMake
11 1 (0.34%) ERwin
General
1 87 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 38 (12.93%) Telecoms
4 31 (10.54%) Public Sector
5 26 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.84%) Electronics
6 23 (7.82%) Law
7 17 (5.78%) Manufacturing
8 14 (4.76%) Aerospace
9 13 (4.42%) Finance
10 6 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.36%) Advertising
11 4 (1.36%) Back Office
11 4 (1.36%) Local Government
11 4 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.36%) Retail
12 3 (1.02%) Automotive
12 3 (1.02%) Games
12 3 (1.02%) Legal
12 3 (1.02%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (18.71%) Senior
2 53 (18.03%) Software Engineer
3 46 (15.65%) Developer
4 39 (13.27%) Lead
5 35 (11.90%) Test Engineer
6 34 (11.56%) Test Automation Engineer
7 20 (6.80%) Java Developer
8 19 (6.46%) Analyst
9 18 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
10 13 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.08%) Python Engineer
12 11 (3.74%) Data Scientist
12 11 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.74%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 10 (3.40%) Junior
13 10 (3.40%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (3.06%) Data Analyst
14 9 (3.06%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (3.06%) Software Developer
15 8 (2.72%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (9.86%) HTML
2 28 (9.52%) REST
3 22 (7.48%) jQuery
3 22 (7.48%) React
4 18 (6.12%) ActiveMQ
4 18 (6.12%) Apache Camel
4 18 (6.12%) Hibernate
4 18 (6.12%) Spring
4 18 (6.12%) Spring Boot
4 18 (6.12%) Web Services
4 18 (6.12%) WireMock
5 15 (5.10%) .NET
6 14 (4.76%) Node.js
7 12 (4.08%) CSS
7 12 (4.08%) Django
7 12 (4.08%) Qt
8 8 (2.72%) Flask
8 8 (2.72%) JSON
8 8 (2.72%) XML
9 7 (2.38%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.33%) Linux Command Line
2 33 (11.22%) Algorithms
3 23 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (6.12%) IoT
5 13 (4.42%) Embedded Systems
6 11 (3.74%) Molecular Biology
7 9 (3.06%) NB-IoT
8 8 (2.72%) Management Information System
9 7 (2.38%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.04%) Client/Server
10 6 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.36%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.36%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.02%) Acoustics
12 3 (1.02%) Cloud Native
12 3 (1.02%) Clustering
12 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.02%) Robotics
12 3 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 109 (37.07%) Linux
2 52 (17.69%) Windows
3 14 (4.76%) Unix
4 13 (4.42%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.70%) Debian
5 5 (1.70%) SUSE
5 5 (1.70%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 4 (1.36%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.36%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.68%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (25.17%) DevOps
2 73 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (22.11%) Software Engineering
4 57 (19.39%) Test Automation
5 51 (17.35%) Agile
5 51 (17.35%) Analytics
5 51 (17.35%) CI/CD
5 51 (17.35%) Mentoring
6 41 (13.95%) Machine Learning
7 40 (13.61%) Microservices
8 38 (12.93%) Coaching
8 38 (12.93%) Validation
9 37 (12.59%) Collaborative Working
9 37 (12.59%) Computer Science
9 37 (12.59%) Workflow
10 36 (12.24%) Software Testing
10 36 (12.24%) System Testing
11 35 (11.90%) Artificial Intelligence
12 34 (11.56%) Test Management
13 28 (9.52%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 85 (28.91%) JavaScript
2 71 (24.15%) SQL
3 69 (23.47%) Bash
4 62 (21.09%) C++
4 62 (21.09%) PowerShell
5 43 (14.63%) Java
6 35 (11.90%) C
7 26 (8.84%) Shell Script
8 23 (7.82%) C#
9 16 (5.44%) MATLAB
9 16 (5.44%) TypeScript
10 15 (5.10%) Go
11 11 (3.74%) Fortran
11 11 (3.74%) Ruby
12 10 (3.40%) Perl
12 10 (3.40%) Rust
13 7 (2.38%) R
14 3 (1.02%) VB
15 2 (0.68%) VBA
15 2 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 121 (41.16%) Degree
2 47 (15.99%) Security Cleared
3 43 (14.63%) SC Cleared
4 34 (11.56%) Master's Degree
5 22 (7.48%) PhD
6 15 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.76%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.74%) CompTIA Security+
9 9 (3.06%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.36%) A+ Certification
11 4 (1.36%) Dell Certification
11 4 (1.36%) MCP
11 4 (1.36%) Numerate Degree
12 3 (1.02%) Postgraduate
13 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.34%) HND
14 1 (0.34%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (19.05%) QA
2 25 (8.50%) Data Quality
3 24 (8.16%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.02%) ECSS
5 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.34%) CDISC
5 1 (0.34%) GDPR
5 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 57 (19.39%) Docker
2 21 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.08%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.06%) vSphere
5 7 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.70%) NFS
7 4 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.02%) HDFS
8 3 (1.02%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (17.69%) Kubernetes
2 40 (13.61%) Terraform
3 27 (9.18%) Ansible
4 18 (6.12%) Kibana
5 9 (3.06%) Puppet
6 6 (2.04%) Kustomize
7 5 (1.70%) ZABBIX
8 4 (1.36%) Nessus
8 4 (1.36%) Proxmox
9 3 (1.02%) Grafana
9 3 (1.02%) Kubeflow
9 3 (1.02%) Prometheus
9 3 (1.02%) SCCM
10 2 (0.68%) Graylog
10 2 (0.68%) Packer
11 1 (0.34%) Argo
11 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.48%) VMware
3 20 (6.80%) Splunk
4 17 (5.78%) Dynatrace
5 12 (4.08%) SAP
6 8 (2.72%) Databricks
7 6 (2.04%) Oracle
7 6 (2.04%) Sawtooth Software
8 4 (1.36%) Dell
8 4 (1.36%) Juniper
9 3 (1.02%) Cisco
9 3 (1.02%) Citrix
9 3 (1.02%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.02%) NVIDIA
9 3 (1.02%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.02%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.68%) Aruba
10 2 (0.68%) F5
10 2 (0.68%) Mellanox
10 2 (0.68%) OpenAI